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Ron K. Kinmon Jr., the former director of operations for the Grant County School District, had his teaching certificate suspended by the Kentucky Education Professional Standards Board for seven days beginning June 15, 2012.

Kinmon resigned his position from the district on June 20, 2011, after a sexual harassment complaint was filed against him by a bus driver.

A 34-year-old undocumented alien living in Dry Ridge was indicted June 28 for illegally entering the U.S. for a second time.
A federal grand jury in London returned an indictment charging Leonel Lopez-Limon with illegal re-entry.

Lopez-Limon, a Mexican citizen, was previously convicted of committing an aggravated felony on Feb. 22, 2010, in Carroll Circuit Court in Carrollton for theft of a controlled substance and theft of a legend drug.

With the days heating up, it won’t be long until it’s time for the Grant County Fair.

With this year’s annual event, the fair board has added some new contests including an extension homemaker award and a quilt show.

This year’s fair will begin on Friday, July 27 with an Open Western Pleasure Horse Show, a youth talent contest and a small truck pull. The fair continues through Saturday, Aug. 4 at the Northern Kentucky Fair Grounds on Baton Rouge Road in Williamstown.

The Grant County Detention Center was the temporary home to a death row inmate last week.

Roger Epperson, an inmate at the Eddieville State Prison arrived at the Grant County Detention Center at 1 p.m. on July 5 to be deposed by the Attorney General’s Office. He left Grant County on July 6.

According to a press release issued by Grant County Jailer Terry Peeples, the facility was placed on lockdown while Epperson was in custody there. Peeples, Major Richard Clise, Capt. Mike Webster and Lt. Steven Skinner remained at the jail during Epperson’s stay.

These two phrases greeted a Dry Ridge man and a couple when they were rousted out of their apartments around 4:45 a.m. on July 9 after an undercover sting at a Dry Ridge factory netted five drug-related arrests.

Deputies with the Grant County Sheriff’s Office, troopers with the Kentucky State Police and Dry Ridge Police Chief Rick Kells served the arrest warrants before dawn following a five-week investigation at Dana Corporation.